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* The Female have Empalements , four leaved : the leaves oval, 
fmall, fitting clofe, deciduous and placed upon the germen.' 
They have no petals. 
The Germen are oblong, three-fided, their margins crowned, 
obfolete, four-cleft, and beneath. The Styles none. The 
Stigmas obtufe. 
The Seed-vejjels berries, which are globofe, fmooth, and of 
of one cell. 
The Seeds fingle, fomewhat heart- fhaped, compreflfed and flelhy. 
The Species, with us 9 are , 
i. Viscum rubrum. Red berried Miffeltoe . 
This grows upon the branches of trees and is not 
found growing in the earth as other plants. It rifes 
with llender woody flalks, feveral inches in height, 
fpreading and forming a tuft or bufh. The leaves 
are lance-fhaped and obtufe. The flowers are pro- 
duced in fpikes from the Tides of the flalks, and thofe 
of the female are fucceeded by roundifli red berries, 
containing each one heart-fhaped, compreffed feed, 
furrounded by a tough vifcid iubflanee. 
2. Viscum purpureum. Rurple-berried Miffeltoe . 
This alfo rifes up from the branches of trees like 
the other. The leaves are inverfe-egg-fhaped, or 
oval and narrowed towards the bafe. The flowers 
come out in racemi or bunches from the Tides of the 
flalks; the female of which are fucceeded by berries 
of a purple colour when ripe. 
There is a variety of this with yellow leaves, refem- 
bling thofe of the box; the berries are alfo produced 
in bunches and are of a fnowy white when ripe. 
Miffeltoe is moll frequently found growing upon 
the Nyffa Sylvatica or Sour Gum, in the middle 
States, but to the fouthward upon oaks. It is pro- 
pagated by birds feeding upon the berries, the feeds^ 
of 
